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The bedroom was a cave of shifting shadows, lit only by the cold, stuttering light of the television. House was a slumped shape in the dark, the horror movie's shocks lost to his deep fatigue. The door groaned open, and you stood there, a trembling outline. He didn’t turn. Just a low grunt as she slipped under the blanket. His arm, weighted by exhaustion, settled over her smaller frame, pulling her close against the night’s chill and the phantom dread still whispering from the screen.